(2) Exactly 37 electors "go rogue" in favor of Clinton. Neither candidate has a majority of electoral votes. The House of Representatives will decide the outcome. Note that they can't pick just anyone. Their choices are limited to those candidates who actually got electoral votes, so Clinton and Trump are the only choices. With a solid majority of state delegations Republican, there's no way they're going to pick Clinton. Trump still wins.

(3) 38 or more electors "go rogue" in favor of Clinton. Clinton wins. Obviously, this is the best-case scenario for Clinton supporters, but (a) she will be over a month behind on preparations to take office (unless she has been doing that behind the scenes); (b) she would still be a shitty president, just not as shitty as Trump; ( c ) she will have immense trouble accomplishing anything at all with Republican majorities in both houses of Congress; and, what worries me most, (d) Trump and his supporters will go ballistic. If you thought there were "riots" after Trump's win, you ain't seen nothin' yet. I don't think it would be the civil war that LDH predicted, but it won't be pretty either.

I don't see a good outcome here. It's gonna be a rough ride no matter what happens.

I think there's a fourth option: Exactly 37 electors go rogue in favor of a third candidate and Congress picks that person as president.

That is the solution a lot of people suggest at this point.

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(2) Exactly 37 electors "go rogue" in favor of Clinton. Neither candidate has a majority of electoral votes. The House of Representatives will decide the outcome. Note that they can't pick just anyone. Their choices are limited to those candidates who actually got electoral votes, so Clinton and Trump are the only choices. With a solid majority of state delegations Republican, there's no way they're going to pick Clinton. Trump still wins.

(3) 38 or more electors "go rogue" in favor of Clinton. Clinton wins. Obviously, this is the best-case scenario for Clinton supporters, but (a) she will be over a month behind on preparations to take office (unless she has been doing that behind the scenes); (b) she would still be a shitty president, just not as shitty as Trump; ( c ) she will have immense trouble accomplishing anything at all with Republican majorities in both houses of Congress; and, what worries me most, (d) Trump and his supporters will go ballistic. If you thought there were "riots" after Trump's win, you ain't seen nothin' yet. I don't think it would be the civil war that LDH predicted, but it won't be pretty either.

I don't see a good outcome here. It's gonna be a rough ride no matter what happens.

I think there's a fourth option: Exactly 37 electors go rogue in favor of a third candidate and Congress picks that person as president.

Perhaps, but that seems unlikely, and I'm not sure what the limits are. The electors might be restricted to people who were on the ballot, or were at least registered as candidates. For example, during the recent Wisconsin recount, it came out that anyone who wrote in Bernie Sanders might as well have written in Mickey Mouse -- the vote didn't get counted, because Sanders wasn't registered as a candidate in Wisconsin. If the electors are similarly restricted, they only have a few choices other than Clinton and Trump -- and I'm not a big fan of either Johnson or Stein either. Plus, I can't see Congress choosing someone who got 37 electoral votes over someone who got 269 (especially when Mr. 269 was "entitled to" 306). And I don't think the voting public would stand for it if they did.

As much as I hate him, I think we're stuck with Trump. I've already resigned myself to that.

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OK, so while almost all possible solutions to Trump are worse than Trump I think I can see one that will work.

Wait for the right moment, hack his Twitter account and post "Mass shooting in &&&&. So sad. Ban these dangerous assault weapons NOW!!! #MAGA" and let his supporters take their natural course.

Bonus points if you can make it look like the hack originated in Russia.

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